Sandwiched between its third-quarter results and re:Invent conference, Amazon's been pitching AWS as production-ready.
Amazon wheeled out a host of corporate big names and government super-users to testify to AWS's suitability beyond pure dev and test at a London event on Tuesday. AWS chiefs sought to reassure the suits of …

Online commerce giant Alibaba is among a crop of “new world” Java users seeking to shape the direction of both language and platform.
Alibaba, one the world’s largest users of Java, has entered the race for election to the ruling executive committee (EC) of the Java Community Process (JCP). Jack Ma’s ecommerce giant joined the …

Analysis
NetSuite's 18-year run as an independent ERP SaaS provider is over after shareholders approved Oracle's $9.3bn acquisition of the firm.
Larry Ellison scraped up a narrow majority of unaffiliated shares to land one of Silicon Valley's early SaaS pioneers.
Ellison got 53.21 per cent of unaffiliated shares, 21,775,553. Oracle's …

Microsoft Future Decoded
Britons lack skills essential for tech bosses, overseas students are facing a clampdown on UK study, and Blighty lags behind international R&D spend.
But Brexit! What an opportunity for Britain to lead the world!
Chancellor Philip Hammond affixed the standard ministerial stiff upper lip to address the topic of Brexit Tuesday …

Openstack Summit
Don't expect future implementations of OpenStack without vendors first having cleared a new battery of emerging conformity tests.
That's the word from OpenStack Foundation chief operating officer Mark Collier, who reckons the appetite to prove interoperability is too strong for tech providers to resist.
The impetus is coming …

OpenStack Summit
Dynatrace is taking on open-source cloud tools with a performance suite it claims is “enterprise grade.”
The firm’s Digital Performance Platform that’s used on Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure is now available for OpenStack.
Supporting the platform are Mirantis and SUSE, through their OpenStack spins.
Digital …

Openstack Summit
OpenStackers have sought to alleviate concerns that applications on rival clouds are locked in and not portable.
Sixteen companies have demonstrated a model LAMP enterprise application running uniformly and without a hitch across OpenStack distributions and public clouds. It was deployed using Ansible and Shade with a second …

OpenStack Summit
First came AWS, then Microsoft’s Azure – now Google’s Cloud Platform (GCP). Microsoft’s been playing feature catch-up to AWS since 2008 with the baton passing now to Google under Diane Greene.
OpenStackers, though, be warned: do NOT join this race and try to catch public cloud market number-one AWS.
So says Anna Lai, vice …

OpenStack Summit
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has polished its open-source cloud bundle ready for those returning from public cloud or perturbed by off-premises services.
At the OpenStack Summit on Monday, HPE unveiled HPE Helion OpenStack 4.0, running the latest Mitaka edition of OpenStack and targeting enterprises and telcos keen on …

NetSuite closed in typical fashion what promised to be the final quarter before it is subsumed by Oracle - growth in turnover continued, as did operating overheads and losses.
The cloudy ERP firm reported Q3 results for the period ended September, while reiterating it will not give guidance for the fourth quarter and has …

The cost and expense of AWS and Azure is helping drive cloud hopefuls to OpenStack, the organisation has said.
Jonathan Bryce, OpenStack executive director, told El Reg ahead of this week's conference in Barcelona: "The number-one business driver for open-source cloud is cost."
According to Bryce, organisations are using …

Cloud-flinger Mirantis has signed up global telco giant NTT as its first data centre service provider partner.
NTT has announced Private OpenStack "as a service" on its NTT Enterprise Cloud, a fully managed service running in its data centres. The service will be offered from 140 NTT data centres, be fully managed and deliver …

A UK fin-tech firm will seek regulation in Ireland if the government doesn’t preserve financial services passporting rights in its EU exit talks.
Regulation in Ireland would allow LMAX Exchange, which describes itself as “one of the UK’s fastest growing technology firms”, to keep doing business with other EU member states. …

Gobbling data via S3 is what helped make AWS what it is - the world’s single biggest provider of public cloud.
Google, lagging AWS somewhat with GCP, today shook up the data storage options on its cloud coupled with an added price drop to help close that gap.
Amazon claims to have reduced AWS prices 52 times since 2006 and …

Mesosphere will open-source new features in its container and cluster management fabric as a leg-up to startups - "Y-Combinator" types.
Ben Hindman, Mesos’s creator, told The Reg that DC/OS 1.9, due by year’s end, would be “almost completely” open - with version 1.10 next year 80 per cent so.
“Every single review cycle we are …

A project fostering JavaScript’s panoply of projects has been established by the Linux Foundation.
The JS Foundation will cultivate JavaScript application and server-side projects. The thinking is to create a centre that drives broad adoption and development of JavaScript technologies and that fosters collaboration. It should …

Cloud whisperer-turned-venture capital influencer Zorawar Biri Singh has floated free of Cisco Systems.
The roving entrepreneur who turns corporate heads was brought in as Cisco's chief technology officer for platforms in July 2015.
Singh was member of incoming chief executive Chuck Robbins’ new team and arrived as the former …

Like so much in Britain, you can credit the weather for this. Ocado has rolled out AI using Google’s open-source TensorFlow to improve service at its customer call centre.
The online food retailer took six months to build and install a system based on machine learning., using Python, C++, Kubernetes on Google Compute with …

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“If you believe you’re a citizen of the world, you’re a citizen of nowhere. You don’t understand what the very word ‘citizenship’ means." So British Prime Minister Theresa May told her party’s conference last week.
Home secretary Amber Rudd laid out plans at the conference to make it harder for British employers to hire …

Red Hat has open sourced its code repository for Ansible to run DevOps.
The Linux flinger has released to GitHub its Galaxy code repository for Ansible.
Now it is an open source project you can create your own Galaxy servers, while Galaxy stands to benefit from new features and enhancements that flow in.
Tim Cramer, head of …

SAP is making a number of senior management changes in its cloud business in the UK.
Darren Roos, general manager for northern Europe, is taking charge of SAP’s SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud as president.
Roos joined SAP in January 2014 from Software AG, where he’d been chief operating officer for EMEA, Asia Pacific and Japan; and …

Donald Trump is Reg readers’ top candidate for firing to Mars according to a record poll result.
The Reg last week offered you the chance to get rid of that certain somebody in your life by electing them for passage one of Elon Musk’s rockets to the red rock.
Chances of coming back from that 55 million km trip? Not so much. …